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A spin-off in television is a new series containing characters or settings that originated in a previous series, but with a different focus, tone, or theme. For example, the series Frasier was a spin-off of the earlier series Cheers: the character Frasier Crane was introduced as a secondary character on Cheers, and became the protagonist of his own series, set in a different city, in the spin-off.
Making a Murderer is an American true crime documentary television series written and directed by Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos.The show tells the story of Steven Avery, a man from Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, who served 18 years in prison (1985–2003) after his wrongful conviction for the sexual assault and attempted murder of Penny Beerntsen.
Avery's 2007 murder trial and its associated issues are the focus of the 2015 Netflix original documentary series Making a Murderer, which also covered the arrest and 2007 conviction of Avery's nephew, Brendan Dassey. [7] In August 2016, a federal judge overturned Dassey's conviction on the grounds that his confession had been coerced.
Millions obsessed over the true crime explored in Netflix's 2015 "Making a Murderer" series.Mankato writer Megan Cooley Peterson got a worldview shift and a book out of it. "I remember watching ...
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As cocreator, executive producer, writer and director of Making a Murderer, Ricciardi won awards (all shared with Demos) from numerous organizations including the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the Television Critics Association, [6] the International Documentary Association, [7] the Producers Guild of America, [8] [circular reference] Cinema Eye, [9] the International Academy of ...
“I have one goal — and that is to overturn the conviction of Steven Avery,” says attorney Kathleen Zellner in the new trailer for the second installment of Netflix’s Emmy Award-winning ...